Sausage-linking attachment.



-vv. T. 0. RULE. SAUSAGE LINKING ATTACHMENT.

APPLICMION FILED FEB. 1o. 1914.

Patented Api. H, 1916.

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W.` T. 0. RULE. `sAusAG1-i LINKING ATTACHMENT.

APPISCATION FILED FEB. l0. 1914.

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6MM/m1100114 WILLIAM T.

o. RULE, or HAMPTON, Iowa.

SAUSAGELINKING ATTACHMET.

Specification of `letters Eatent.

Patented Apr. 1.1, 1916.

.Applicatjtin -filefd February 10, 1914. Serial No. 817,892.

To all 107mm it may concern.' 3 v Be it known that I, QWIMAM T. O. RULE, a citizen of the United ritates, residing at Hampton, in the county of Franklin and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sausage-*Linking Attachments, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention is an improved sausage linking attachment forl use in connection with a sausage stufhng machine, the objedt of the invention being to provide an improved device of this character which pro^- vides a plurality of casing carrier tubes and means for revolving said tubes to cause the casings to be twisted together after being stuffed and thereby divide the sausages into links, a specific object of the invention being to effect improvements in the construction of the casing carriertubes, another object being .to effect improvements inthe means for connecting the casing carrier tubes to the discharge spout of a sausage stuffing machine, another objectbeing to provide 'improved means for simultaneously rotating the casing carrier tubes and operating the stuffing machine.

The invention consists inthe construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a sausage stuiiing machine provided with a sausage linking attachment constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan cf the same.

Fig. 3 is a detail vertical longitudinal cen tral sectional View of vthe sausage linkingl attachment. F ig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectional view of the same on the plane indicated by the line a-a of Fig. 3.

For the purposes of this specification the cylinder of a sausage stuffing machine is here'indicated at 1 and provided at its discharge end with a spout 2. The usual plunger A is indicated in dotted lines vin F igs; 1 and 2; provided with a rod B which has rack teeth C on one side vengaged by a pinion D on a shaft E, said shaft having a worm gear F. In accordance with my invention I provide a revoluble casing car rier element'. This casing carrierl element consists of a plurality of tubes-4 Jall of which communicate withand lead lfrom the intake end of the casing*- carrier, the said tubes 4 being arranged with their axes parallel and being preferably slightly tapefed toward their discharge ends. The intake end of the casing carrier is internally threaded. and is provided with an outwardly projecting polygonal flange. 5 which may be readily grasped by a wrench to enable the carrier to be attached to or detached from the tu bular shaft 6, said shaft being exteriorly threaded to engage the' threadsin the intake end of the casing carrier and beingI provided at its inner end with an annular flange 7 A spur gear 8 is also screwed or otherwise suitably secured on the tubular shaft and bears against the inner end 'of the casing carrier.

A tubular sleeve 9 is detachably fitted to the discharge end of the spout 2, arranged,

in line therewith and secured to said spout by means of a collar 10 which has threaded engagement with the spout as at 11 and which has at the outer side an annular flange 12 which engages a flange 13 at the inner end of the tubular shaft. 9. `Thereby the said collar 10 securely and yet detachahly vconnects the clamping .collar to the discharge,spout of the stuffingmachine. lThe clamping collar 10 is here shown as provided with radial arms 14 to enable it to be readily manually screwed on or unscrewed from the discharge spout, to attach or 'detach the tubular shaft and thelinking mechanism. The; outer end of the tubular shaft 9 is dianietrically enlarged as at 15 and exteriorly threaded the threads thereof being frame G of the sausagey stufling machine as vby means of bolts 20. .This frame 19 has an outwardly extending arm 21 at one end, where the frame 19 projects beyond the discharge end of the sausage stuling machine and said frame 19 has a bent arm 22 at its opposite end. ,A shaft 23 which is horizontally arranged and extends longitudinally of the frame 19 has its bearings in the yarmsjl and 22 and is provided at its outer end with a spur gear 24 which engages an idlerv gear 24:, said idler gear engaging the gear 8. At the opposite end ci' said shalt 23 is a beveled gear 25 which is engaged by a similar gear 26 on a driving shaft 27 which is arranged at right angles to the shaft 23 and has its bearings in the frame 19 and in the arm 22. A sprocket Wheel'28 is secured on the shaft 27 and said shaft also has a,

, crank 29 or other suitable. .device by means of `which it may be readily revolved. y A.

shaft 30 which is mounted in a bearing lon the :trame G- of the sausage .smiling-machine vhas a sprocket Wheel 352 and is alsoprovided gaged with the inionl). rlhe shaft 27 is then revolved eit er manually or by power. The sprocket Wheels and chain and the Worm gear cause the plunger to he moved tor- Wardly in the cylinder-s0 as to force sausage meat through the spout 2 and 'from thence through the sleeve 9 and tube through the easing carrier. The shaft 23 being geared to the shalt 27 is also revolved and the gears 24. and 8 cause the casing car- /rier to revolve continuously during' the operation. ot the sausage smiling machine. rlhe casings are placed on volving casing carrier and hence become stued with the sausage meat and when a suivcient length ei"- the casings have been plunger is then reinserted in the cylinder and its rack B enwhich it projects,

shaft 6 to andl the tubes ol 'the re- L17/aaai; y

. .7"1 stu'ed to Jforni sausage lengths thefoperatcr bya slight pressure of the thunh and toreiinger upon the casings at the outer end of the casing carrier causes a slight subdivision of the meat therein and momentarily arrests the turning movement of the casings `with the casi g carrier, and as the latter continues to revolve twists' are formed in the portions ot hecasings Where such divisions are made thereby forming the links in the sausage and twisting the casings to ether.

y improved linking attachment may be readily atta 'hed to and may be readily removed' therefrom so that all parts may he kept clean and in order and the parts of my linking attachment may be readily as sembled and disassembled.

Having thus Adescribed my invention, l claim l ln a device of the kind described, in cornbination a cylinder,y a tubular shaft rotatably mounted upon said cylinder, said shaft being externally threaded, a gear wheel haw ing an internally threaded; bore into which said shaft is threaded and in advance ol a collar threaded upon the projecting end of said tubular shaft and having an integral flange jammed against sai-d gear and .integrally formed upon said collar and communicating with said collar.

In testimon Whereofl ailix my signature in presence o two Witnesses.

l vviniriaia fr. o. einen. Witnesses: i

Sneewoon A. Cece-n, R. L. SALEY. 

